Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron
Nora Ephronwas an American journalist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, director, and blogger...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth19 May 1941
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
typewriters bangs form
I am not a new journalist, whatever that is. I just sit here at the typewriter and bang away at the old forms.
worry one-day serious
Suddenly, one day, there was this thing called parenting. Parenting was serious. Parenting was fierce. Parenting was solemn. Parenting was a participle, like going and doing and crusading and worrying.
becoming
You can't meet someone until you become what you're becoming.
sex drinking laughing
Working as a journalist is exactly like being the wallflower at an orgy. I always seem to find myself at a perfectly wonderful event where everyone else is having a marvelous time, laughing merrily, eating, drinking, having sex in the back room, and I am standing on the side taking notes on it all.
want ifs women-want
If Sigmund Freud had watched Phil Donahue he would never have wondered what women want.
play people roles
Food is one of my favourite things. Though I certainly know lots of people who happen to be happily married who don't have food play the role in it that it plays in my life. And I don't know how they do it, and frankly I feel so bad for them because I just love food and one of my favourite things is asking, "What do we want for dinner? What do we feel like eating?" That wonderful negotiation that goes on several times a week about what "we" feel like.
powerful journalism photograph
That [photographs] disturb readers is exactly as it should be: that's why photojournalism is often more powerful than written journalism.
age necks looks
We all look good for our age. Except for our necks.
people events taste
I recognize that printing pictures of corpses raises all sorts of problems about taste and titillation and sensationalism; the fact is, however, that people die. Death happens to be one of life's main events. And it is irresponsible and more than that, inaccurate, for newspapers to fail to show it.
mother daughter powerful
My parents were screenwriters, and they had four daughters and we all write. So that's amazing. Talk about powerful parents. My mother always said to us, "Everything is copy."
divorce way
The divorce has lasted way longer than the marriage, but finally it's over.
writing boys males
Most directors, I discovered, need to be convinced that the screenplay they're going to direct has something to do with them. And this is a tricky thing if you write screenplays where women have parts that are equal to or greater than the male part. And I thought, 'Why am I out there looking for directors?' - because you look at a list of directors, it's all boys. It certainly was when I started as a screenwriter. So I thought, 'I'm just gonna become a director and that'll make it easier.'
food people taste
Some people pretend to like capers, but the truth is that any dish that tastes good with capers in it tastes even better with capers not in it.
thinking numbers wrinkles
I'm not one of those people who think you should go grey and that there is some virtue in looking wrinkly if you don't feel like it. If you do, great. If you don't, just my only caution is watch out. There are a huge number of wrinkle creams that do nothing for you.